Today, I need a fair bit of cheering up and this almost did the trick for 3 minutes…
After that momentary ray of sun, I am black in Gloomy Blue. The [big] Other is already passing judgement in the form of split infinitives and what is generally considered good English. Don’t even have the energy to [...]
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I have uploaded Split Flip, new draft Flash animations dealing with subjective contradiction, tembling, flips, spilts, obsessions and comic repetition. Click here to see them.
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Watch the trailer:The death of Salvador Dali, written and directed by Delaney Bishop.
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They all have something to hide… and show…
Patricia Arquette as Renee Madison and Alice Wakefield in David Lynch’s Lost Highway
Dita Von Teese, pinup star, burlesque performer and muse of Agent Provocateur, photographed by Perou
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My abstract for the forthcoming Engaging Baudrillard conference has been accepted. I will be delivering a paper entitled Created to lead astray: Baudrillard’s seduction in contemporary artefacts at Swansea University between the 4th and 6th September 2006. Read my abstract.
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Someone inadvertently reminded me today that I used to refer to my PhD as Humbert Humbert refers to his story in Lolita. I always wanted to say to my examination panel, while pointing at my voluminous thesis and looking at my seductive artworks:
Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, look at this tangle of thorns.
A [...]
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I always forget I do more than I think I do… As evidence, I updated my profile page.
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It is beginning to dawn on me that the process of undergoing analysis may not be the clean-cut objective and process-based approach to methods I have been thinking about. I will not be able to hide myself behind such and such theory, this or that concept. It will be subjective, and, undoubtedly, things I do [...]
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With thanks to Ben for pointing out the Street Hawk referents… Curious use of imagery, this one…
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Laura Gonzalez is an artist and writer. Her practice encompasses drawing, photography and sculpture, and her work has been exhibited in the UK, Spain and Portugal. She has participated in numerous conferences, including Research into Practice (2008), College Arts Association and the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (2007). When she is not following Freud, Lacan and Marx's footsteps with her camera, she lectures postgraduate students at the Glasgow School of Art.
She is currently immersed in an interdisciplinary project, which investigates psychoanalytic approaches to making and understanding objects of seduction within the fields of fine art, consumption studies and material culture. Her research includes an examination of parallels between artistic and analytic practices, a study of Manolo Blahnik's shoes as objects of desire, a disturbing encounter with Marcel Duchamp's last work, and the creation of a psychoanalytically inspired Discourse of the Artefact, a framework enabling the circulation of questions and answers through a relational approach to artworks. She seeks refuge and inspiration in psycho-geography, especially if it takes her to shopping centres, those mysterious places.